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title = "Dashboard Setup"
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Getting the dashboard running is very simple, you will need as a pre-requisite to have installed Tyk, Redis and MongoDB (v2.6+). If you haven't done this yet,
it's probably worth making sure that all these are installed and working prior to installing tyk Dashboard. your Tyk installations does not need to be
configured to any upstream services, we can do all that via the dashboard (in fact, this is recommended, because there is not system to import file-based
configurations at the moment).
[There's a demo setup for vagrant](../../v1.6/setup/vagrant-setup) if you're keen on testing Tyk and tyk dashboard without having to muddle through
installing each service individually, the write-up gives a step-by-step account of how to get every service running.
## Requirements for Tyk Dashboard
**MongoDB version 2.6+** Tyk Dashboard requires mongoDB version 2.6 or higher to be installed, using an older version will work,